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Here's a [[Just for Fun]] index of Tropes that would make [[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band]], with a brief description of what the resulting band would be like (Also, these [[Trope Names That Should Become Dance Crazes|dances]] would go perfectly with their music). Mind you, that it should be a name that the band would have chosen for themselves, not necessarily the one that describes them best.
 
Compare [[Trope Title Shows]].
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** Sounds more like screamo.
* [[A God Am I]] - A narcissistic 'band' that consists only of one man (the lead singer from [[Those Wacky Nazis]], naturally) screaming into a microphone about how great he is. There are mirrors on stage at all times and Paris Hilton is the background dancer. - also, A God Is I is an album title by metalcore-hardcore band Merauder
* [[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band]] - What happens when nerdcore gets meta.
* [[Aliens of London]] - British nerd rock.
** [[Aliens in Cardiff]] - A Welsh tribute band for [[Aliens of London]].
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* [[All Men Are Perverts]] - Riot Grrrrl
* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]] - Electronic band that only makes remixes of [[Engrish]] from video games. Their first two singles, "(I! Garland! Will) KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN!" and "You Spoony Bard", became [[YouTube]] sensations, with over 50 million views each. Their career came to an abrupt end after somebody set up them the bomb, killing two members and a light technician.
* [[Alone Withwith the Psycho]] - American death-metal band. Consists of four guys and a girl, all dressed in black and disguised to the point that they all look the same.
* [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Dress up like movie villains (Vader/ Emperor Palpatine, Sauron, etc.) and do songs that show they're not really the bad guys.
* [[Altum Videtur]] - A neo-classical, Gregorian-inspired band that does covers of the contemporary hits by translating them into Latin.
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* [[Ancient Conspiracy]] - New Age.
* [[And I Must Scream]] - Metal band with lots of unsettling ambient electronic elements and a strange fascination with the idea of being "trapped".
* [[And Man Grew Proud]] - Dronecore instrumentals, ala [[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]].
* [[Apocalypse How]] - Extremely loud, abrasive electronic noise.
* [[Apocalypse Not]] - Death metal spoof.
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* [[Archive Panic]] - One dude who makes experimental music like the Residents. Ever since 1967, he's released at least twenty albums a month, not to mention the number of bootlegs, singles, live albums, mixtapes and compilations...
* [[Ascended Glitch]] - A two-man epic glitchstep band.
* [[Ascended Meme]] - A [[Weird Al]] sytle band that chooses a meme and writes a song about it (songs that are already memes are covered). Hit singles include ''[[Dawn of War|Our Enemies Hide In Metal Boxes]]'' and ''[[Bio ShockBioshock|Nothin' like a Fistfulla Loitnin']]''. [[Once an Episode|One song]] in an album is [[Overused Running Gag|always]] ''[[Rickroll|Never Gonna Give You Up]]'' [[Rickroll|disguised as a different song]].
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] - Emo+Death Metal+Children's rock. Each song starts out dark, gets darker, then becomes trivial.
* [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]] - The s-l-o-o-o-w-e-s-t and DARKEST prog metal you will ever hear. The band members play "live" concerts, in quotation marks: all the lights are turned off and the band members are behind the curtains.
* [[Atop a Mountain of Corpses]] - As Black as Black Metal gets, absurdly popular in Norway, banned everywhere else
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]] - A recent group, unconstrained by genre; they'll play anything, for no longer than sixty seconds (if you're lucky). Early shows had light displays until they proved ''way'' too distracting... to the band.
* [[A-Team Firing]] - Another nerdy tribute band, this team for ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' ([[Captain Obvious|of course]]). The guitarist is Murdock, the keyboardist/lead vocalist is Face, the bassist is Hannibal, and the drummer is B. A. All four members have concealed weapons licenses. Most notable for their spot-on [[Filk]] parody of "[[Firefly|The Ballad of Serenity]]" (now "[[Running Gag|My Dog Named Billy]]").
* [[Attract Mode]] - Electronica by a nerdy-but-sexy girl band.
* [[Audio Erotica]] - All-girl Electronica-Glam Rock Revival girl band by way of Goldfrapp, [[Daft Punk (Music)|Daft Punk]], and T-Rex.
* [[Autobots Rock Out]] - Transformers nerd rock (Rockformers?) that started out playing classic and 80s Rock about various bits of the expansive Transformers lore. Gained a loyal following with their first album ''Truck Not Monkey''(With the [[Title Drop]] song poking fun at the fans outrage over Optimus Primal in [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]), and close every live performance with a cover of ''You've Got The Touch''.
* The [[Awful Truth]] - indie retro sound, political satire lyrics.
* [[Background Music]] - A professional lounge and ambient artist who makes music for films and advertisements.
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* [[The Beautiful Elite]] - combines rock, pop, electronic and techno. Widely loved as a band. All gorgeous, and none of them single.
* [[Beautiful Void]] - Metal with emo band with insane guitar riffs. Which are all beautiful.
* [[Become a Real Boy]] - Screamo of the worst kind. Known to many fans as BARB.[[Trope Names for Aa Band]]
* [[Beef Gate]] - Hardcore industrial noise rock.
* [[Behind the Black]] - Former lead singer of a black metal band ditches his costuming and heavy makeup to go solo with [[Lighter and Softer]] unplugged versions of his former hits.
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* [[Blatant Lies]] - Grunge metal with a penchant for dark, depressing and nigh-on impenetrable lyrics.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]] - Japanese band whose English lyrics have been run through Babelfish several times. They are frequently accused of being a [[Stealth Parody]] of [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]], a charge that their lead singer vigorously denies.
* [[Bling of War]] - a pompous military orchestra using oversized brass instruments and heavy weaponry in their performances. Wear green costumes, [[Commissar Cap|Commissar Caps]], and [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|lots of regalia]].
** Alternately, a hip-hop act, replete with bling, composed of US Army veterans.
* [[The Blofeld Ploy]] - Metal, mostly of the screaming variety, but with occasional forays into death metal territory.
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* [[Blood Magic]]-[[Cast From Hit Points]] cover band. [[Ascended Fanboy|CFHP recently asked them to act in their latest music video, and open a few of their concerts]].
* [[Bloody Warrior]] - [[Heavy Mithril]] band.
* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]. Made up of four friends who got tired of all "hard" bands looking like rejects from a horror movie. They dress like accountants. They sound like death metal at its hardest.
* [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten]] - Like [[Josie and Thethe PussycatsPussy Cats]], but they're a [[Stealth Parody]] of the Christian far right.
* [[Body Horror]] - KCMO based goregrind band known for their lyrical themes of parasites, surgery, mutation, body modification, testing on living subjects, and other biological themes. Their vocals are well pronounced and easy to understand, which is somewhat unpleasant due to the great descriptions of various body horrors. All of the members have biology degrees, and some study anatomy and parasitism. Their live performances have been banned in a few cities due to footage of parasites and surgery being projected behind them on a screen, and the various other gimmicks performed on stage (disassembling a dead pig over the course of the show and hosting a bbq afterwards, inviting audience members on to the stage for piercings, selling preserved parasites in jars after shows, etc.)
** i.e. [[Carcass]]
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* [[Canon Immigrant]] - Folk rock
* [[Cassandra Truth]] - Borderline emo, every song predicts doom and gloom of the worst variety. The lead singer is legendary for her waily vocals.
* [[Cast From Hit Points]]: [[Dark Fantasy]] [[Heavy Mithril]] [[Rock Opera]]. Wear armor with built-in fireworks, so it looks like they're actually doing magic, and hooked up with pipes that squirt fake blood when the firework is launched ([[Nice to Thethe Waiter|the arena janitors and their families are given the best seats at the concert]], and [[Don't Try This At Home|Do Not Attempt!]] is emblazoned across the screen when they shoot at each other). Have understudy band members so the leads can hand off their instruments and duel without messing up the song. Work very closely with fantasy moviemakers (including an anime company) to make their [[Music Video|Music Videos]] (a fusion of live action actors for humans/ humanoids and animated monster opponents, set in an animated environment). Famous for a grand finale pitched battle, mimicking an RPG battle screen, and [[Pet the Dog]] moments [[Dark Is Not Evil|despite]] their [[Darker and Edgier]] story-singing. [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|They also incoroporate their sound tech and roadies into the show]]. Trying to get their [[Rock Opera]] made into a TV show (a la' [[Metalocalypse]]). The artists themselves are a [[Five-Man Band]], with [[The Hero]] on lead, [[The Lancer]] on Bass, the [[White Magician Girl]] on keyboard, [[The Big Guy]] on drums, and [[The Smart Guy]] on "explosive instumentation". Every so often, a [[Sixth Ranger]] shows up. He's considered to be the best out of all of them, and his appearance is quite rare, so it's considered a treat by all involved (in the vids, he acts as a [[Deus Ex Machina]], who only shows during their [[Darkest Hour]]).
** Damn it, now I want this to exist really bad.
* [[Cast Herd]] - Electro-pop group [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|that sounds very similar to Devo]].
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]- all-girl rock band, who perform in Catholic private school uniforms, complete with lollipops (the guitars, drums, etc. being painted in a pink-swirl lollipop motif), pleated skirts, knee-high socks and pigtails. Every single one of their songs is a three-minute (or whatever) [[Double Entendre]]. Every. Single. One.
* [[Chain -Reaction Destruction]] - Techno death rock band.
* [[Chainsaw Good]] - Gore metal of the most brutal and horrifying kind, with lyrics about gore, blood, corpses, necrophillia... [[Squick|I think that's enough]].
** Currently on tour with Cannibal Corpse.
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* [[The Chessmaster]] - A one man band who changes his sound based on the [[Crazy Prepared|next big thing.]]
* [[The Chew Toy]] - [[Emo]] of the "nobody loves me, everybody hates me" variety. (is there any other kind?)
** A quirky electronic pop-rock group with [[Tear Jerker|extremely sad]], [[Contemplate Our Navels|introspective]] lyrics and occasionally hysterical vocals. [[Screwed Byby the Network|Screwed over by every label they've been on.]]
* [[Chickification]] - A female pop group version of [[The Village People]], consisting of [[Wrench Wench|a riveter]], a [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Catholic schoolgirl]], a [[Xena: Warrior Princess|warrior princess]], a [[The Baroness|secret agent]], and a [[Lesbian Jock|softball player]]. Best known for their hit single, "Women's College". Interestingly, their biggest fanbase is among gay men.
** That's quite a good idea, actually.
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* [[Cloning Blues]] - Indie jazz.
* [[Closer to Earth]] - Soft, ambient New Age music with a [[An Aesop|green message]].
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Cloudcuckoolanders]] - A band whose music style is [[Mix and Match Musical Genres|almost impossible to pin down to one style]]. Their lyrics tend to have a lot of [[Gratuitous Japanese|very]] [[Gratuitous German|random]] [[Gratuitous Spanish|and]] [[Gratuitous Greek|badly]] [[Altum Videtur|translated]] [[As Long Asas It Sounds Foreign|foreign]] [[Blind Idiot Translation|words and phrases]] as well as [[Speaking Simlish|outright gibberish]]. Heavily influenced by the style of [[wikipedia:Polysics|Polysics]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]] - Self Demonstrating <s>Article</s> Band. Plays heavy metal and barely goes two lines without swearing.
* [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes]] - we're not really sure what they are, but you can be sure their lyrics are full of snappy irony and general pessimism towards the human race.
* [[Colony Drop]] - Arena Rock.
* [[Combat Sadomasochist]] - Technical death metal meets breakcore. Have a [[Strange Girl|spooky]], [[Cute and Psycho|possibly insane]] female vocalist with a penchant for [[Careful Withwith That Axe|screaming like a maniac in concert]].
* [[Commander Contrarian]] - An IDM band, they take John Williams score-ish music and break the hell out of it. Vocal talents are handled by Basshunter (under a pseudonym, of course.)
* [[Complete Monster]] - A Death Metal band that tries hard not to Cross The Line Twice or take [[Refuge in Audacity]], instead keeping their lyrics as vicious and offensive as possible. [[Love It or Hate It]].
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* [[Cool Old Guy]]- a band fronted by a retired eighty something grandfather, who goes by "Cool Old Guy" as a stage name and does almost everything that musicians half his age can do, but better! The other members of the band are his teenage grandchildren and their friends, who let him play a few soings with them just to be nice, but even they were blown away by his talents.
* [[Corrupt Church]] - A parody of Christian rock bands. The lead singer and drummer have serious issues with organized religion. The guitarist is religiously confused, the keyboardist is agnostic but his/her parents force him/her to be Catholic, and the bassist just doesn't care.
* [[Cosmic Horror]] - A doom metal band whose songs evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The lyrics frequently contain references to [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Cthulhu Mythos]].
* [[Covert Pervert]] - An understated, pretty-sounding [[Indie Pop]] group with subtly groovy basslines and sly lyrics loaded with kinky subtext. Fronted by a [[Meganekko|pretty bespectacled girl]] [[Older Than They Look|of ambiguous age]] who, it is rumoured, once worked as a fetish model.
* [[Cranial Eruption]] - Math rock and noise rock. Many of their songs are derived from formulas rather than from actual melodies (e.g. [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=218 Garfield Music])
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* [[Cryptic Background Reference]] - Like Beatnik poetry with increasingly-pounding basslines, although [[Word Salad Philosophy|the actual lyrics]] are closer to [[They Might Be Giants]].
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]] - Japanese rock band with lyrics entirely in [[Gratuitous English]]. [[Blind Idiot Translation|Mangled]] gratuitous English.
** Who also sound like a fusion of [[Shonen Knife]] and [[Godflesh]], but with keyboards and [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|really trippy]], [[Faux Symbolism|symbolism-loaded]] live performances.
* [[Crystal Spires and Togas]] - A spin-off band of [[Raygun Gothic]], formed by the keyboardist because he wished to pursue other musical directions. Accordingly, they have a less technical and not as heavy style. They tell a side-story to [[Raygun Gothic]], involving a [[Red Shirt]] from the third album who got better and became the leader of an alien civilization. Both have played on stage together, performing their split four-disc album ''[[Crisis Crossover]]''.
* [[Cute Bruiser]] - The band that the lead singer of [[Boisterous Bruiser]]'s little sister made. Plays mostly peppy metal.
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* [[Dark Reprise]]: Snarky comebacks for upbeat/ inspiring songs. Or, death metal done by ex-children's singers. (Think [[Raffi]] if he got fed up singing to kids and turned evil).
* [[Dead Unicorn Trope]] - I'm thinking some kind of dark rock-ish or power metal sound, with fantasy lyrics and an appreciation of metafiction.
* [[Death Byby Mocking]] - A death metal parody.
** So, spiritual successors to ''[http://www.myspace.com/tenmaskedmen Ten Masked Men]''?
* [[Death Byby Newbery Medal]] - A nerdy death metal parody with songs about literature.
* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]-Post Hardcore band whose lyrics express violent hatred towards unrequited love triangles and Geometry. Their debut album went by the title "SOHCAHTOA (Some Odious Harlots Can Always Hurt Teens Offering Affection)"
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]] - Their first album was entirely original material. The rest all consist of remixes and remakes of those songs in different styles.
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* [[Dirty Communists]] - Very similar in their unfaltering stage personas to [[Those Wacky Nazis]].Often do covers of folk music. Musical style varies; it is an open secret that each of the band members has a different musical style (though premised on the same idea), and have been at each other's throats.
* [[Disco Dan]] - Singer/composer who has been releasing music consistently since 1976, despite being way too old and having about a dozen remaining fans. Has an [http://ocremix.org/artist/4285/disco-dan artist page] over on [[OC Re Mix]].
* [[Disease Bleach]] - Punk rock. This troper actually thought "[[A Good Name for Aa Rock Band|that sounds like a band]]" when she saw the name.
* [[Disney Death]] - A Death Metal band that only plays Disney songs. It's better than it sounds.
* [[Disobey This Message]] - Truly edgy Punk Rock when it was first formed, but due to [[Executive Meddling]] after hitting the big time, shifted to much less controversial Pop rock, before a bitter break up. After the band broke up, each of the founding members formed their own band, none of which have enjoyed the same success as [[Disobey This Message]].
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* [[Dragon Lady]] - satirical punk rock that often focuses on deconstructing the racial and sexual attitudes of modern society. The lead singer is an Asian-American woman.
** Alternatively, an all-girl [[Dragon Force]] tribute band.
* [[Driver of a Black Cab|Driver of A Black Cab]]- A Gothic/Doom Metal band that is known to be very politicaly active, often times stoping between songs to rant about today's society.
* [[Dronejam]] - A celtic/techno hybrid. It sounds demented. It works, somehow.
** [http://www.martynbennett.com/album_03_hardland_01.html Been done]. Naturally, it's [[Better Than It Sounds]].
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* [[Elves vs. Dwarves]] - Progressive rock. Their greatest rock opera, ''[[Our Elves Are Better]]'' (1976), originally took up ''four'' LPs and ran seven full minutes before the first words were sung. The lead singer famously gives all interviews in a West Midlands English accent despite having been born and raised in a suburb of Kansas City.
* [[Emo Teen]] - An emo/pop-punk band that took their penchant for self-reference way too far.
* [[Emotion Eater]] - Variable. Albums are usually named (emotion) for (mealtime), and marked "Serve with..." and best before..." labels, like it was food. Badass for Breakfast is all [[War Is Glorious]] (serve with epic saga), Lust for Lunch is all [[Intercourse Withwith You]] lyrics set to porn jazz (Serve with adult literature), and Despair for Dinner (serve with depressing philosophy text) is all gloom-and-doom Emo/ death metal. Insists their concerts are advertised as "buffets".
* [[Enfante Terrible]] - Blues glam metal with lots of single entendres.
* [[Epileptic Trees]] - experimental band with cryptic lyrics, trippy aesthetics, and mind-boggling light shows. No two fans can agree on the exact meaning of a song.
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** Alternately, your typical trashy metal band, who often look like they're having seizures on stage.
* [[Erection Rejection]] - a band that plays spoofs of love songs.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Penguins]] - Enthusiastic, goofy punk-pop with an almost childlike, optimistic tone. The world is a giant playground, life is pretty good, and penguins make everything awesome, so why worry?
* [[Eviler Than Thou]] - A death metal band famous for dressing up as famous movie villains. The lead singer is Darth Vader, voice and everything, with Sauron on bass, Darth Maul on guitar, and Agent Smith on drums. The Joker plays keyboard, but it sounds like Bloody Stupid Johnson's synthesizer from [[Discworld (Literature)/Carpe Jugulum|Dontgonearthe]] Castle--all creaks, clanking chains, and screams.
* [[Evil Weapon]] - Heavy metal.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]] - Also called Aptly Named [[Fan Nickname|by their fans]], every one of their songs is about a random everyday object, and all their albums are [[Concept Album|themed around]] where the objects would be found. ''Closet'' is their biggest record to date, with hits such as "Shirt" "Tie" and "Smelly Shoe".
* [[Eye Scream]]: Death metal band with an impaled eye as its emblem.
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]] - Techno/Punk group with laser light shows lasting almost the entire concert.
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* [[Half-Human Hybrid]] - A small Nerdish group of Juillard Graduates that are well-known for their experimental crossbreeds of several musical genres, fans are there just to see what they come up with next. The former lead left to record under [[Interspecies Romance]]
* [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]] - Glam rock.
* [[Heavy Meta]] - Why meta when you can [[Mind Screw]]? All their songs are about how awesome [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] is.
** [[Heavy Meta]] is a real-life desighn company
* [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Heavy Metal Umlauts]] - [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Heavy metal. With umlauts.]]
* [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity]] - A rock band trying to go mainstream.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] - A parody band made up largely of professional voice actors performing under assumed stage names and personalities.
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]] - J-pop influenced garage band whose members are in their early teens.
* [[High-Speed Missile Dodge]] - Middle-aged local metal band whose original songs are mostly about the muscle cars they owned when they were cheap used cars and wish they still did so they could sell them for a fortune at Barrett-Jackson. Lead singer and bassist are the [[Generation Xerox|fathers of the lead and bassist of Highly Visible Ninja]].
* [[High School Rejects]] - Three teenage nerds singing about, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|being high-school rejects.]]
* [[Hijacked Byby Jesus]] - Alt-metal rock group that used to be a Christian rock band till most of them left in disgust after the lead singer lost his faith.
* [[Hollywood Homely]] - A Spice Girls/Pussycat Dolls-like girl group that makes its gorgeous female members wear Tina-Fey-style glasses and schoolgirl uniforms (with rather short skirts) to incite the fanboys' lust.
* [[Hollywood Heart Attack]] - Loud, nonsensical electronica
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* [[Kill Sat]] - Hardcore.
* [[Kill the Cutie]] - Riot Grrl, deeply critical of the value society puts in beauty.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]] - American rock/metal band. Their first album, the self-titled ''[[Kill It Withwith Fire]]'' (2000) went to number 1 in five countries and had been translated into seven languages. Their next album and titular single, ''[[Where I Was Born and Razed]]'' (2003) went to number 1 in ten countries. After that came third album ''[[Playing Withwith Fire]]'' (2004), another chart-topper. Their next album, ''[[Our Dragons Are Different]]'' (2006) also reached number 1, but at a slower rate. Their [[Darker and Edgier|darkest]] album yet, ''[[Out of the Inferno]]'' (2008) has become both a hit and a major point of disagreement amongst the band. However, their latest, ''[[Apocalypse How]]'' (2009), is sure to hit the top of the charts.
* [[King in Thethe Mountain]] - Hard Celtic rock, sort of like Boiled In Lead.
* [[Kirk's Rock]] - Some sort of nerd band.
* [[Kiss of the Vampire]] - a semi-goth/punk girl band. The band has an inexplicable fixation on vampires, and every music video and concert features at least one member of the band being bitten on the neck by another member. [[Author's Saving Throw|Outspoken in their hatred of]] [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]].
* [[Klingon Promotion]] - Completely nerdcore, shows up to every performance in Klingon garb and makeup. Broke up after the bassist took the band's name to heart...
* [[The Knights Who Say Squee]] - [[Heavy Mithril]] [[Affectionate Parody]] band.
* [[Lady of War]] - An all-girl power metal band, with the [[Face of the Band|lead singer]] being a [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|striking]] [[Nightwish (Music)|ex-opera soprano]]. Thematic similarities in their lyrics to [[Manowar]] have been noted.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] - Sings about breaking up with girlfriends and forgetting about them. Alternatively, could be an album name.
* [[Last-Disc Magic]] - neo-psychedelic trance.
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* [[Love Martyr]] - A Italian Gothic Metal band who sing mostly about how their female lead singer was in a praticularily bad relationship.
* [[Loving a Shadow]] - Emo, emo, holy crap, emo.
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]] - Hip-hoppy band with disturbing lyrics. Recent hits include "I Can't Love You ([[Dude, She's Like, in Aa Coma|Until You Fall Asleep]])" and "Washing My Socks (With Your Mother's Blood)"
** Dude, I'm taking the first song title.
* [[Lysistrata Gambit]] - A girl group who write feminist lyrics and melodies that somehow manage to be both catchingly poppy and hauntingly ethereal.
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* [[Maximum Fun Chamber]] - 900+ BPM speedcore/happy hardcore fusion. Became the center of [[Moral Guardian|great controversy]] when it was revealed that several synth fills in their songs, when converted into Morse code, translated into "LSD".
* [[Mega Corp]] - Anarcho-punk. They always release their albums on the Internet and ''never'' sign with major labels, partly because that would be cooperating with the reviled megacorps, partly because nobody would like to sign with them anyway.
** Alternatively, a Mega Man tribute band mostly known for covers of [[The Megas]] and [[The Protomen (Music)|The Protomen]], and a surprisingly well-done cover of "I Can't Defeat Air Man". Popularized the use of Metool hard hats as a fashion statement.
* [[Mega Manning]] - Guns & Roses tribute band. [[Bill Engvall|Thank you to those of you who got that.]]
** Alternatively, a fledling Mega Man tribute band that will eventually hit it big after changing their name to Mega Corp.
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** Alternately, nerdcore rappers who often do covers of appropriate Weird Al songs. They became famous after their third album, with the fan favorite track "Meow If Chuck Norris Could Kill You", went gold in two weeks.
** [[Memetic Badass]] - A nerd metal band that think they're a lot more awesome than they really are.
** [[Memetic Sex God]] - Another nerd band, but this time all their songs are [[Intercourse Withwith You]] and they think they're really sexy, when in reality they could frighten a horse.
** [[Memetic Molester]] - humorous porngrind, with a lyrical focus on pop culture and internet in-jokes.
* [[Metal Scream]] - Canadian [[Melodic Death Metal|melodeath]]/[[Metalcore]] band fronted by [[Sibling Team|twin]] vocalists [[Alice and Bob|Alissa and Bobbie]] McKenzie, and possibly the only band in the world to feature male ''and'' female growling vocals. Most famous for their single "[[Scare Chord]]", they are slated to appear alongside The Blofeld Ploy and Little Miss Badass at the Donnington Download Festival 2011 to promote their new album ''Rage''.
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* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]] - Strongly Emo-tinged hardcore, in the style of Alesana and Chiodos, with From First to Last -esque angsting and vocal style.
* [[Murderers Are Rapists]] - Straight-up deathcore a'la As Blood Runs Black or Suicide Silence. Their longest song is about eight minutes long and has no less than fifteen breakdowns.
* [[Muse Abuse]] - [[So Bad]] It's Horrible covers of [[Muse (Musicband)|Muse]] songs.
* [[Mushroom Samba]]- Latin dance band with somewhat psychedelic touch.
* [[My Car Hates Me]] - Kooky indie/electronica band.
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** [[Fan of Underdog]] - Started out as a My Hero Zero cover band, but has since found their own style, more pop than emo, by with similar fondness for [[Lyrical Dissonance]]. The two bands are both great fans of the other's work, and often open for each other... During the "Wannabe" tour, each referring to themselves as the other's tribute band and playing only covers of the other band's songs and songs [[In the Style Of]] the other band. Fans refer to this tour as "I don't know what the hell happened, but it was kinda fun."
* [[Name of Cain]] - A doom metal band whose lyrics prominently feature the topic of sin, divine punishment, and fratricide.
* [[Name That Tune (TV)|Name That Tune]] - An instrumental-only group whose concerts repertoire consists of well-known songs played without the lyrics. The audience are encouraged to sing along once they work out where the chorus is.
* [[Nameless Narrative]] - Sad punk rockers strongly influenced by drone metal.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]] - nerdcore band with a [[Genki Girl]] frontwoman, songs full of [[Mars Needs Women]]-esque lyrics, and a notoriously [[Squick]]-filled live performance banned almost everywhere.
* [[Necro Non Sequitur]] - Blackened death metal. Well known for their [[Word Salad Lyrics]].
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]] - [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].
* [[New Game+]] - The "[[Final Fantasy]]" half of [[Extended Gameplay]]. Hate both Nightmare Fuel and later Nightmare Fuel, but not early Nightmare Fuel, despite the fact that all are freaky and disturbing.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]] - Pornogrind supergroup containing former members of Nightmare Fuel and Fetish Fuel.
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* [[Nobody Poops]] - A mix of techno and orchestral, going for epic sci-fi so hard they fall into [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]] - [[Lyrical Dissonance|but the lyrics]] are about [[Most Writers Are Human|humanity's failures of imagination]].
* [[No Export for You]] - An all-male trio who had a J-Pop/Electronica style and ended up being a huge hit in Japan. However, their label decided not to release their music anywhere else, deciding the music would not do well in other countries. The band tried to protest to get their music in other regions, but were quickly shunted off their label and replaced by [[Bad Export for You|a new band who plays off-key covers of their songs.]] The company decided to take the band's idea and sell the music in other countries, however the new band did not perform quite as well.
* [[No Such Thing Asas Space Jesus]] - Synthpop/techno fusion. The frontman used to head a christian rock band.
* [[Noodle Incident]] - An obscure indie rock band with a heavy progressive influence.
* [[Not Wearing Tights]] - Comedy duo or trio who sing about pop culture.
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* [[Planet Eris]] - Discordian rock.
* [[Planetville]]: A [[Zeerust]]-filled '60s pop band.
* [[Playable Epilogue]] - The "[[War CraftWarcraft]]" half of [[Extended Gameplay]]. Ever since [[Elves Versus Dwarves]] took them into a grudge match over the less-than-flattering [[Shout-Out]] in the Play Ep song ''[[All Orcs Are Different]]'', the two groups have been bitter rivals.
* [[Played for Laughs]] - A band that only performs covers of other bands. And by perform we mean misplay and fill it with hilarious [[Mondegreen|mondegreens]]. Many bands stiuplate in their contracts not to let them use their songs as it [[Hilarious in Hindsight|makes their songs hard to take seriously afterwards]].
* [[Police Brutality]] - A political punk band that signs from the persona of corrupt and abusive cops. Known for their breakout song "Right to Remain Violent".
* [[Political Correctness Gone Mad]] - A ''Rage Against The Machine'' clone, but even more mean.
* [[Porn Stache]] - A coed 70s rock/disco/pop cover band - pure, sexy, and dirty fun!
* [[The Power of Rock]] - Loud rock, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|duh]]. One of the earliest "[[Up to Eleven|over-the-top]]" bands,and [[Trope Codifier]] for [[Pure Awesomeness|awesome]]. Inspired [[Kill It Withwith Fire]] and [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]].
** It's not a Rock 'n Roll band, it's ''the'' Rock 'n Roll band. All of their songs are about Rock, the influence it's had on the music industry, great rock musicians of the past, and how Rock has changed the world. Only beaten by [[The Beatles]] in sheer popularity. There was once a a kid with cancer who, as his Make-A-Wish, asked if he could play a few riffs with this band. By the end of the first song, his cancer was cured and he had grown a beard. That's how awesome this band is.
* The [[Power Trio]] - Glam-rock band with a singer/guitarist as the leader, a sarcastic, intellectual female pianist as the songwriter, and a drummer who just likes to hit things.
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* Psycho for Hire: A seemingly insane Death Metal band, that actually deal with mental health issues.
* [[Public Domain Artifact]] - Indie rock.
* [[Putting Onon the Reich]] - Volk music. Accuse [[Those Wacky Nazis]] of selling out to the Jews with their heinous foreign "metal", introduced by communists to corrupt the patriotic music scene.
* [[Rage Against the Reflection]] - An American Christian metalcore band whose lyrics are about their brushes with depression and suicide and eventual turning to Christ
* [[Rage Quit]] - A metal band. At their live shows, the guitarist always makes a mistake about halfway through the fifth song, and his playing just gets worse from that point on until he gives up and walks off stage. Currently looking for a new guitarist.
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* [[Rated "M" for Manly]] - On the surface, Heavy Metal. actually a brilliantly done [[Stealth Parody]] of the genre. Lots of argument amongst fans if they're music is intentionally [[So Bad It's Good]], unintentionally [[So Bad It's Good]], So Bad It's Horrible, or just plain Good. Rivals of [[Testosterone Poisoning]].
** We already have this kind of band, and it's called '''[[Manowar]]'''. Save for the name, the description matches perfectly.
* [[Raygun Gothic]] - Power/prog metal. Their albums all tell the ''[[Crystal Spires and Togas]]'' science fiction saga. They are faster than [[Dragon Force]] and more complex than [[Dream Theater (Music)|Dream Theater]], and their ultimate goal is to create the most difficult-to-play piece of music ever.
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]] - A pop-punk band who have all of their band tee's in pink and often joke about being gay when really they do this to get a female fanbase and thus chicks.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] - More Japanese singers. These ones, for no discernible reason, sing Japanese mythology (and occasionally other mythology) translated to Portuguese through French, with a Punk tune. Nobody has ''any'' idea whose idea it was to start this band.
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* So Yeah - Indie-ish [[Power Pop]] based in Seattle but with two of four members from Vancouver (its fans debate whether they sound more like [[OK Go]] or [[The New Pornographers]]). A fair number of their songs just kind of trail off without actually ''ending'', on the grounds that "you know where this is going, so why should we keep playing?" Most of these songs (and all of their albums) are references to [[Eddie Izzard]] routines.
* [[Someday This Will Come in Handy]] - Progressive Rock, interspersed with random trivia. At least once per song, at least one band member will implement whatever is in his/her pockets at the time.
* [[Something About a Rose]] - retro cocktail act with some stylistic similarities to [[Pink Martini]], who got their start doing [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Guns N' Roses]] covers.
* [[Soul Fragment]] - [[Harry Potter|Wizard rock]]. Alternately, the same emo as everyone else.
* [[Sound Defect]] - A [[Stylistic Suck]] comedy band that specializes in adding [[Wacky Sound Effect|Wacky Sound Effects]] to their music, as well as other sound gags (the sound suddenly cutting out, an instrument suddenly detuning or seeming to break, etc.). A [[Running Gag]] involves them attempting to find the right sound effect for a song...and failing repeatedly.
* [[Slasher Smile]]- Incredibly distubing and violent lyrics set to catchy, cheerful pop rock
* Speaking Simlish: A pop-rock band that either speak a mash of foreign languages in each song, or just sing gibberish. [[As Long Asas It Sounds Foreign|Wider audiences claim they're actually singing in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and even Russian.]]
* [[Spikes of Villainy]] - affectionate parody of [[Black Metal]]. Lots of [[Heavy Mithril|fantasy]] and [[Warhammer 40 K40000]] references in the lyrics.
* [[Springtime for Hitler]] - A neo-Nazi rock band that keeps trying to get themselves pulled off the radio by singing praises for Hitler. The controversy just makes them even ''more'' popular.
* [[Squee]] - a Japanese pop band whose songs are incomprehensible, but the few understandable lyrics all relate to a [[Sugar Bowl]] world where [[Everything's Better Withwith Sparkles|sparkles reign supreme.]]
** Or, a group doing [[Myst]]-themed parodies.
* [[Spit Trail Kiss]] - A french dj and vocalist duo mashing Electronica-House-Club-Trance-Jungle Bass genres.
* [[Squishy Wizard]] - A group of self admitted nerds with songs that spoof videogame tropes, such as the titular wizard.
* [[Start to Corpse]] - As always with names like these, metal, probably some garage band who's a bit confused on their exact sub-genre, or what it actually means. Bassist wants to play Black metal, the drummer wants to play Death metal, the Guitarist wants to experiment, and the lead singer is still mesmerised by the idea of subgenres.
* [[Steampunk]] - Symphonic metal band... with a twist! The band uses [[Schizo-Tech|steam tractor with generator attached]] to power their instruments, the drummer uses a [[Clock Punk|clockwork]] backpack with [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous|six extra arms]] to maximize efficency. Some songs use [[Homemade Inventions|overhauled]] string instruments, brass instruments (steam-powered,natch), and a freakin' ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|pipe organ]]''. A [[Shock and Awe|Tesla Coil]] and low-temperature steam provide on-stage effects, musicans dress as Victorian-era gentlemen, [[Bling of War|soldiers]], and [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]]. And you know how they haul all their perephirals around? [[Zeppelins Fromfrom Another World|With the help of their blimp]]. Currently on tour with [[Raygun Gothic]].
* [[Stepford Smiler]] - A pop rock Band Who Plays very Happy music, But lyrically They talk about Suicide and depression and Murder. Basically [[Lyrical Dissonance]] to the core.
* [[Stock Puzzle]] - A sound crew remixes popular music that you've already heard several hundred times.
* [[Strange Girl]] - Eccentric [[Gothic Rock]] band with [[Dream Pop]] leanings and a slight [[Trip Hop]] edge. Friends with [[Tori Amos (Music)|Tori Amos]].
* [[Strictly Formula]] - A pop rock band who <s>uses</s> blatantly steals pretty much every riff, lyric and melody that you've heard in every other song on the radio.
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]] - A rather fringish rock band with lyrics which are either profound or nonsensical (nobody agrees, of course). Not for the easily offended.
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* [[Super Punk Octo Pudding Gas Mark Seven]] - Japanese singers who sing entirely in "[[Gratuitous English|English]]".
* [[The Syndicate]] - The Italian-American answer to the Dropkick Murphies, singing folk-punk, the folk part coming from traditional Southern Italian music.
* [[Take It to Thethe Forums]] - Smashcore clusterjam wreck-rock. Live performances banned in 11 countries.
* [[Take That]] - Pretty much the same band as [[Accentuate the Negative]]. Naturally, these two bands ''loathe'' each other. Not to be confused with the <s>boy</s> [[Take That (Musicband)|middle aged man band led by Gary Barlow]].
* [[Techno Babble]] - Vocal samples over a drum machine beat, not recommended as backgorund music for crowded places. Features lengthy rap sessions by a [[The Godfather (Film)|Don Vito Corleone]] impersonator.
* [[Teens Are Monsters]] - A [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits|ragtag]] [[Garage Band|garage band]] trio of misfit teenage girls [[Crowning Music of Awesome|blasting their hearts out on cheap instruments.]] Their lyrics are generally [[The Snark Knight|sardonic, snarky, darkly humorous reflections and observations on the follies of teenage life]]. Their music is usually categorized as "alternative rock," but it is also influenced by hardcore punk, punk pop, and progressive rock. They performed their first gig when they crashed a talent show at their high school, setting up in record time and performing part of the song "Pep Rally Purgatory" before the administration caught on and forcibly removed them from the stage. They later released their debut album ''[[Brainless Beauty]]'' and began a tour in a [[What a Piece of Junk!|converted family minivan]], playing guerilla gigs across the country and building up a fanbase of various teenage freaks. The band members are:
** A [[The Snark Knight|Daria-esque]] guitarist/cellist/lead singer who writes most of the lyrics and sings most of the songs.
** A keyboardist/violinist/occasional lead vocalist and lyricist who dresses like a stereotypical [[Goth]] but is actually more like a [[Shrinking Violet]] [[Hollywood Homely|nerd]].
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* [[Thong of Shielding]] - all-female pop/rock. Perform only in lingere' with g-string panties. Songs are about skimpy underthings and protecting loved ones. Currently on tour with [[Nipple-and-Dimed]].
* [[Those Two Guys]] - Wacky nerd-humor band. Or at least, WANNABE wacky nerd humor band. They're not actually nerds, and they're really just playing along with the record company to try and capitalize on the success of Weird Al's "White and Nerdy." Yes, they're ''poser nerds.''
* [[Those Wacky Nazis]] - Who've constructed an elaborate stage persona of vicious, totally unironic-sounding neo-fascists from which they never deviate, and endeavour to keep their real lives (especially speculation as to whether they're Jewish, as often claimed) secret. As noted above, ''metal'', playing gigs with the [[Dirty Communists]] to play off their rivalry. The fact that both [[Those Wacky Nazis]] and the [[Dirty Communists]] ''hate'' [[Putting Onon the Reich]] has led some fans to joke that the two bands are actually just two faces of a larger project, The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
* [[To the Bat Noun]] - Another [[Superhero]] tribute rock band. This band's members dress up as member of the [[Justice League]]: [[Batman]] (lead singer), [[Superman]] (keyboard), [[Wonder Woman]] (guitar), Green Arrow (bass), and [[The Flash]] (drums). They are bitter rivals with [[Adam Westing]].
* [[Too Cool to Live]] - Nihilistic party metal. From the "live fast, die young" school of thought.
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* [[Touch of the Monster]] - Goth band with aesthetic and lyrical focus on [[Interspecies Romance]], often involving vampires.
* [[Tradesnark]] - Happy-go-lucky punk pop along the lines of Aquabats. All their songs parody recognizable corporations and all of their policies and controversy.
* [[Trope Names for Aa Band]] - Nerd/indie with lyrics that take meta humor just a bit too far...
* [[Troperiffic]] - TV Tropes' own band. Every song is about a trope. By far their most popular download is "[[Major-General Song]]".
* [[The Troubles]] - Pop rock with punk influences.
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* [[Unsound Effect]] - Experimental art-rock band that makes "music" with random objects. Kind of a Steve Reich meets early Residents sound.
** Alternatively, a rap group whose song lyrics consist of absolutely nothing but various onomotopieas.
* [[Vader Breath]] - some sub-set of [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]]. Wear death-masks hooked up with forced-air respirators (which they're never seen without, like Daft Punk and their mirrored masks). Sing through voice changers that give them a deep, mechanical grate. Tracks are interspersed with-what else-deep, rhythmic breathing.
* [[Vendor Trash]] - Indie band that parodies mainstream musical trends
* [[Virtual Ghost]] - Alternates between Punk and Techno music.
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* [[Yaoi Guys]] - erotic gay male J-Pop group entirely made of 4chan moderators.
* [[Yoko Oh No]] - All-female J-pop group that does covers of Beatles songs.
* [[You Wanna Get Sued?]] - Alternative band that only does covers and remixes. Currently has some legal troubles.
* [[Artistic License Military]] - A controversial metalcore/crossover thrash band, where all of the band members are dressed in military uniform and army fatigues, and the lyrics are a bombastic satire of military traditions, hierarchy, and boot camp. They generally pal around with bands such as System Of A Down and Dead Kennedys.
** Formerly entitled "You Fail Basic Training Forever", the managing label encouraged them ([[That Wasn't a Request|not too subtly]]) to change their name and suggested that they invoke a bit of "artistic license". The band evidently took their suggestions a bit too literally.
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